Woman gets 7 years for suffocating infant son

Published 9:08 am Wednesday, June 11, 2014

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota woman has been sentenced to seven years in prison for suffocating her 3-month-old son in 2009 and trying to do the same to her infant daughter in 2012.

Twenty-six-year-old Ashleigh Casey pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and assault in March. The Star Tribune reports prosecutors had asked for 12 years.

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